PaySchools Central

• PaySchools Central must be accessed through Lakota's OneLogin.
• Search for PaySchools in the search bar

• Select the PaySchools tile as shown in the picture above.
• If your OneLogin password has expired or you are having trouble accessing your account, please contact your school.

• If you are registering your students, make sure that you are accessing PaySchools Central through Lakota's OneLogin. The PaySchools Central app is not supported by Lakota Local Schools.
• Once you have logged in and registered with PaySchools, select "Your Students" on the right side.

• Click the green button that says "Add Student/Staff."

• Select Ohio for the state.
• Select Lakota Local (Butler County) for the district.

• If you have a child that attends another school district (e.g., Butler Tech), then you will need to remove your child from that district to be able to register them with Lakota. Instructions for this are below.
• PaySchools requires unique email addresses for each school district. If your email address is registered with another PaySchools Central account for a different school district (e.g., Butler Tech), you must change the email address associated with your Lakota OneLogin account to ensure a unique email address is being used. You must update your email through FinalForms, available through OneLogin. Please note, it may take 24-48 hours for the new email address to be updated in PaySchools.
• If you have followed the steps above and you still cannot get Lakota Local (Butler County) to appear, try to clear the cache and cookies data from your web browser. 
  Each web browser (example: Google Chrome, Safari, Edge) all have different ways to clear the cache and cookies, so please look up your specific browser way of clearing these items. Once you clear the cache and cookies, close the browser then try to log in.

If you are leaving a school district that had PaySchools Central, and no longer need the PaySchools Central account for that district, you can remove your children by following these instructions.

• Log into PaySchools Central using the login information for the district you are leaving.
• On the right-hand side, select "Your Students."

• Locate the student you would like to remove from this account and select the "X" on their tile.

• PaySchools can only support one school district with each email address. If the email address associated with your parent/guardian Lakota OneLogin account has been used to sign up for an existing PaySchools Central account in another school district, the email address associated with Lakota’s OneLogin will need to be updated to a new email that has not been associated with any PaySchools Central accounts.
• There are two Lakota Local School Districts in Ohio. One in Butler County and one in Sandusky County. Here is how they are displayed in PaySchools Central:
  • Lakota Local (Butler County) - This is our Lakota Local Schools and is the school district that parents should be looking for.
  • Lakota Local SD - This is the Lakota Schools in Sandusky County. This is not our Lakota. If you selected the wrong Lakota and a student was added, delete the student and go back through the "Add Student / Staff" process and select Lakota Local (Butler County) as the District.
• Lakota Local School District student ID numbers are six digits in length. If you need to find your student's ID number:
  • Log in to PaySchools through your OneLogin account.
  • Click the Home Access Center (HAC) tile.
  • Select "Registration."
  • Select the student.
  • This page should have your student's ID number on it. If you are unable to locate the student ID number through HAC, please contact the office manager or bursar at your school.
     

PaySchools requires unique email addresses for each school district. If your email address is registered with another PaySchools Central account for a different school district (e.g., Butler Tech), you must change the email address associated with your Lakota OneLogin account to ensure a unique email address is being used.

You can update your email address through FinalForms via OneLogin. It can take 24-48 hours for the updated email to reflect in PaySchools Central. 

Parents and guardians must update their email address in FinalForms, which can be accessed through their OneLogin account.

Once you have logged into OneLogin, click on the FinalForms tile. You will then be directed to complete or update the forms for your contact information. This update may take 24-48 hours to process with PaySchools Central.

From the Dashboard, click on Your Students on the right hand side of the page.

Go to the Add Student/Staff button to proceed to add your student(s).

Breakfast, lunch, and snack charges are processed through a Child Nutrition program called Titan. Any questions about the Titan program should be directed to the Child Nutrition department. 

Yes, balance transfers can be made by filling out this form and submitting it to the Child Nutrition department.
 

• All meal balances paid on EZPay have been transferred over to PaySchools Central as of July 25, 2024. 
• You are able to add additional funds to meal balance accounts through PaySchools Central.

• If a student graduated before the 2024-2025 school year, and they had a meal balance in their EZpay account, we are not able to move those funds to other students in PaySchools Central because the graduated student did not transfer to the new program.
  • All account balances over $5 at graduation were refunded to the parent of record earlier this summer. For balances under $5, you can request for a refund of these balances through Lakota’s Child Nutrition Department.
    • Select the link under the Refund or Movement of Funds heading.
    • Complete the form and return it to the Child Nutrition department for processing.

Yes, any balance transfer requests that have been sent in to the Child Nutrition department will still be processed and should be reflected in PaySchools Central. If you do not see that transfer reflected yet, please email Robin Rathnow in Child Nutrition.
 

The district does not allow accumulated charges, same as years past. All charges will be updated daily to reflect the current meal balances of your children with Lakota School District. Please review Lakota’s Meal Charge Policy. If you have any questions about this policy, please reach out to our Child Nutrition Department.
 

PaySchools meal balances are updated every 6 hours, so after a student makes a transaction (deposits a check) in the lunch line, it won't show up right away.

If you add money to your student's meal balance in PaySchools, it will take 4 hours for the new balance to be reflected in your student's Titan meal balance. If you add a meal balance in PaySchools after 7:30 pm, it will not be updated in the Titan program to spend until 6:30 am the following morning.  
 

Your account can be locked if you make a payment using bad ACH/bank information or bad credit/debit card information. 

In order to get your account unlocked, call the PaySchools support team at 1-877-794-8090.

Transactions made in the lunch line will not appear in PaySchools until the next day, and any purchases from the previous day will be recorded with a timestamp of being purchased at midnight in PaySchools. This timing is due to when the Titan and PaySchools systems communicate to each other.

To view the transactions, login into PaySchools Central by going through your Lakota OneLogin.

From the Dashboard, look in upper right hand area of the meals section for the Four Squares Symbol. 

Click on the square symbol, then click on View Meal History.
 

In the following section, fill out the filters you want to select (specific accounts or date range). You can then click Generate Report.
 

You are not able to have money transferred from one school district's meal balance to to another school district's meal balance even if both districts use PaySchools Central.

If you have meal balance money from another school district, please reach out to that school district to request a refund.

• All Student Fees will be paid through PaySchools Central as of June 17, 2024.
• Due to the timing of the PaySchools transition, East High Marching Band and West High Marching Band are out of sync with the billing cycles. This will only affect the 2024-2025 fees.
• Participation fees increased for the 2024-2025 school year from $200 to $300 per participant.
• Both East and West have billed for the Marching Band Deposit for the 2024-2025 school year, which was billed at $100.
• East High had initially billed a portion of the Participation Fee but the bill amount was only for $100. A second $100 24-25 Marching Band Pay to Participate  Installment Fee was billed on August 13, 2024. 
• West High $200 24-25 Marching Band Pay to Participate Fee was billed on August 13, 2024.

• With the transition over to the new PaySchools Central fee payment platform, we have been working on assigning fees for Pay to Participate for fall sports. We are working on assigning the fees as soon as possible and have spoken with the Athletic Directors (ADs) of both East and West High on this timing of assigning the fees. The ADs are directing all coaches to give an additional grace period for parents to pay the fees as soon as the fees are assigned to the students’ accounts.
• Any additional information will be provided by the ADs once the fees are assigned for the fall season.